Etta James Quotes
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
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Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first – they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all – The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.
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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.
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In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going.
